Brane Descent Relations in M-theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We discuss how the BPS branes of M-theory could be described as bound states of non-BPS M10-branes. This conjectured M10-brane is constructed as an unstable spacetime-filling brane in the massive eleven dimensional supergravity defined with a Killing direction, such that 1) the BPS M9-brane is obtained after the tachyonic mode of an M2-brane ending on it condenses, and 2) it gives the non-BPS D9-brane of the type IIA theory upon reduction. The existence of other non-BPS M-branes is also discussed, together with their possible stabilisation within the Horava-Witten construction.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0001170,
title = {Brane Descent Relations in M-theory},
author = {Laurent Houart and Yolanda Lozano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0001170},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, LaTeX file, final version to appear in Physics Letters B